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Big-box debate isn’t over yet
Norman Chusid and Anne Kilkenny own competing hardware stores in Southeast Portland — but they are united against the city’s recruiting a Home Depot or a Lowe’s home improvement store for the Burnside Bridgehead development.
“People will buy their big stuff at the Home Depot or Lowe’s, then come to us for the 10-cent connector and ask us how to put it together,” said Chusid, who owns Ankeny Hardware, at 1134 S.E. Stark St. “Either one will kill us — cut business 20 to 25 percent,” predicted Kilkenny, who owns W.C. Winks Hardware, at 200 S.E. Stark St.
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Thinking outside the box
"Fear of the unknown" is what small business owner Adam Nappi says was his biggest fear when he first learned that a box store grocer was locating in Freeport, encroaching on his longtime territory.

Nappi, owner of the 3,000 square foot Bow Street Market in Freeport, immediately undertook a formal market assessment and got his second piece of alarming news: he faced a potential 40% loss in business when the box store grocer opened its new 70,000 square foot Freeport store.
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Big Box Retail: What can a community do about them?
A list of a few of the many reasons why Big Box retail is deadly for communities and should be aggressively controlled.
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